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Pablo Picasso Ruiz was the son of a conservative academic painter. who taught at the art academy in Barcelona. This presentation will trace Pablo Picasso's brilliant student work as well as his early mature painting, first in Barcelona and later in Paris, where he moved at the age of nineteen. His style quickly evolved through his melancholy blue and rose stylistic periods to develop a new language of form based on the late work of Paul Cezanne. But his encounter with the traditional art of West Africa at the natural history museum in Paris in 1907 was a turning point in his career, launching him into what has come to be called Cubism, considered by many to be the foundational movement of twentieth-century art.
Dennis Raverty is a speaker, author, and art historian who for decades has delighted audiences with lively presentations at libraries, churches, synagogues, hostels, and business lunches on a variety of topics in the history of art, from the Italian Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance. His articles and criticism have appeared in Art Journal, Art in America, The International Review of African American Art, Art Criticism, The New Art Examiner, Prospects: An Annual of American Studies, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Art Papers, where he was a contributing editor. He authored four entries for the most recent edition of the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, published by Oxford University Press (2011).
Be sure to join us on February 19 for Picasso & Braque and the "Bromance" of Cubism (Part 2), and March 12 for Picasso's Later Work: The Classical and The Irrational (Part 3).
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